A view of the historic log cabin spring house at the site of the My Old Kentucky Home State Park. A stairway ascends to the center piece of the state park, the Federal Hill Mansion once owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795. The park derives its name from a musical ballad written by Stephen Foster, a song that was also made the state song of Kentucky in 1928. Some have suggested that Foster was inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The state of Kentucky purchased the Federal Hill property in 1923, designating it an important historic site. The state park is located in Bardstown, Kentucky.
